Mother Mary Comes to Me

De: Arundhati Roy

Narrado por: Arundhati Roy

A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces the complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati’s life both as a woman and a writer.

Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, is a soaring account, both intimate and inspirational, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary, singular mother she describes as “my shelter and my storm.”

“Heart-smashed” by her mother Mary’s death in September 2022 yet puzzled and “more than a little ashamed” by the intensity of her response, Roy began to write, to make sense of her feelings about the mother she ran from at age eighteen, “not because I didn’t love her, but in order to be able to continue to love her.” And so begins this astonishing, sometimes disturbing, and surprisingly funny memoir of the author’s journey from her childhood in Kerala, India, where her single mother founded a school, to the writing of her prizewinning novels and essays, through today.

With the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels, The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, Mother Mary Comes to Me is an ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace—a memoir like no other.

©2025 Arundhati Roy (P)2025 Simon & Schuster Audio

Raw, Real, and Bare.

Finished in less than 24 hours, just as it became available. A bittersweet mother-daughter story where the bitter is aggressively harsh, but that’s what makes the rare sweet moments feel all the more earned. What makes this memoir remarkable is the lens through which Arundhati Roy sees the world; brutally honest, unsparing of life and, most strikingly herself.
At times it leaves you breathless, as her insights and mature conclusions in the most complex situations seem to come from a rare kind of wisdom, even when she’s a child. Her passion for freedom and for life, pulses through every page and it lingers as an invitation for us the readers to live more fearlessly, and more ruthlessly honest in our own.

Great writer with natural gift .

Very touching and beautiful memorial written by a very talented and gifted writer that covers the last forty years of Indias history interwoven with her personal story

The way she described things made me feel as if I were living through them myself.

This is my second book by the author, the first one being "God of Smaller Things." Now, I've read "Mother Mary Comes to Me." I appreciate how both of these books are individually complete, yet they are subtly connected in an interesting way.

I have not read her fiction, but this was great!

What a writer! She has such an interesting story that was well written with unusual prose you don't often encounter. You don't have to know who she is (and beyond her name, I knew nothing) to enjoy this book. If you enjoy memoir, you'll enjoy this.

I cried

Such deep love and courage. Full of heart breaks. Never patched together. But somehow it feels ok. The world is broken. And it’s ok. The safest place is also the most dangerous place. The most dangerous place is also safe. Hope more of us can find this wilderness and Stay wild.